Title
A content-aware image prior
Abstract
In image restoration tasks, a heavy-tailed gradient distribution of natural images has been extensively exploited as an image prior. Most image restoration algorithms impose a sparse gradient prior on the whole image, reconstructing an image with piecewise smooth characteristics. While the sparse gradient prior removes ringing and noise artifacts, it also tends to remove mid-frequency textures, degrading the visual quality. We can attribute such degradations to imposing an incorrect image prior. The gradient profile in fractal-like textures, such as trees, is close to a Gaussian distribution, and small gradients from such regions are severely penalized by the sparse gradient prior. To address this issue, we introduce an image restoration algorithm that adapts the image prior to the underlying texture. We adapt the prior to both low-level local structures as well as mid-level textural characteristics. Improvements in visual quality is demonstrated on deconvolution and denoising tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/CVPR.2010.5540214
CVPR
Keywords
Field
DocType
image restoration,gaussian distribution,noise reduction,shape,pixel,heavy tail,psnr,image reconstruction,degradation,fractals,deconvolution
Information retrieval,Computer science
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2010
1
1063-6919
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-6984-0
21
0.89
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Taeg Sang Cho121512.62
Neel Joshi2115563.95
C. Lawrence Zitnick37321332.72
Sing Bing Kang45064345.13
Richard Szeliski5213002104.74
William T. Freeman6173821968.76